Make sense.
Because your government do understand how dangerous India can be. Your country is surrounded by India. Even your navy is under India navy shadow.
Pakistan and all South Asia countries will be safe when India explode.
Although I generally agree with what you are saying here but in this case I somewhat want to differ about geography and terrain of Bangladesh. Although most of the border of Bangladesh run through plain land but a significant portion also traverse the hilly, jungle areas. Specially in the North East and South Eastern sides. My educated guess is, around 70 percent of our border with India goes over flat land and the rest 30 percent through hilly jungle. Now a significant portion of this flat border also demarcated by international rivers acting as a natural barrier. Moreover, the interior of Bangladesh is criss-crossed by hundreds of rivers and other water bodies posses a significant barrier to invading troops movement. Specially our capital city Dhaka is surrounded by big rivers from all sides. So Bangladesh despite being mostly flat posses significant terrain advantage over invading forces.
This is a double edged sword for India. It is true, Indian landmass surround Bangladesh from 3 sides. But 2 out of this 3 sides covered by Indian land locked north East. An unnatural appendage of Indian mainland precariously connected with mainland India by narrow Siliguri corridor(Chicken neck corridor).
So from all I wrote dhanmandi was all you recognised....missed the other places like tribal etc.
I really doubt Bangladesh would have the capacity to cut off the corridor if war ever erupted ... chances are India would place a huge concentration of forces there before a war even began. Bangladesh would almost instantly be on the defense if war erupted even if the quality/training of its military matched that of India. The strategic situation as pointed out by @viva_zhao is too precarious ...Although I generally agree with what you are saying here but in this case I somewhat want to differ about geography and terrain of Bangladesh. Although most of the border of Bangladesh run through plain land but a significant portion also traverse the hilly, jungle areas. Specially in the North East and South Eastern sides. My educated guess is, around 70 percent of our border with India goes over flat land and the rest 30 percent through hilly jungle. Now a significant portion of this flat border also demarcated by international rivers acting as a natural barrier. Moreover, the interior of Bangladesh is criss-crossed by hundreds of rivers and other water bodies posses a significant barrier to invading troops movement. Specially our capital city Dhaka is surrounded by big rivers from all sides. So Bangladesh despite being mostly flat posses significant terrain advantage over invading forces.
In 1971 war, When India fought with Pakistan for liberation of Bangladesh, took 13 days to reach the vicinity of Dhaka despite that fact that Dhaka is barely 100 to 200 km deep from Indian border. Then Indian army enjoyed 10:1 advantage on troops and weapons over Pakistan army deployed in Bangladesh, entire population of Bangladesh welcomed Indian troops, Bengali guerrilla forces fought and provided logistics to Indian army and Indian army engaged in bypassing strategy(avoiding Pakistani defence position to rush into Dhaka). Still it took 13 days! This shows, armored thrust within the interior of Bangladesh is not easy. This is the reason, Bangladesh is often called as the 'defender's paradise'.
This is a double edged sword for India. It is true, Indian landmass surround Bangladesh from 3 sides. But 2 out of this 3 sides covered by Indian land locked north East. An unnatural appendage of Indian mainland precariously connected with mainland India by narrow Siliguri corridor(Chicken neck corridor).
North-east is a part of India which has no sea access and it's 98 percent border is shared with Bangladesh, China and Myanmar and only 2 percent border with Mainland India. India itself has constant headache of defending that part of their country against Chinese military onslaught. Let alone using that part as a launching pad against Bangladesh. A militarily strong Bangladesh will only add headache to Indian defence planners. If somehow, Siliguri corridor can be blocked, then the entire North East will be cut-off from mainland India! India will suffer significant obstacle maintaining normal connectivity between it's mainland theatre and north East theatre of war. So in any hypothetical war with Bangladesh(if Bangladesh can achieve minimum deterrence), Indian forces will be forced to function as a divided front, while Bangladesh, by virtue of being in the middle will operate as a single front with much easier logistics and supply line.
And for the navy part, yes our navy is much weaker than Indian navy. We need some capable submarine fleet to reduce this huge gap and to act as a deterrence. We have no delusion of competing with India in Naval race. We only want enough capability so that India can not attack our coast without heavy losses or block our maritime trade unchallenged. That's it. That's why we need a strong Submarine fleet along with decent number of frigate and corvette.
Agree with your post. It's in both BD and China's interest to keep deterrence, so that India won't go too far.Although I generally agree with what you are saying here but in this case I somewhat want to differ about geography and terrain of Bangladesh. Although most of the border of Bangladesh run through plain land but a significant portion also traverse the hilly, jungle areas. Specially in the North East and South Eastern sides. My educated guess is, around 70 percent of our border with India goes over flat land and the rest 30 percent through hilly jungle. Now a significant portion of this flat border also demarcated by international rivers acting as a natural barrier. Moreover, the interior of Bangladesh is criss-crossed by hundreds of rivers and other water bodies posses a significant barrier to invading troops movement. Specially our capital city Dhaka is surrounded by big rivers from all sides. So Bangladesh despite being mostly flat posses significant terrain advantage over invading forces.
In 1971 war, When India fought with Pakistan for liberation of Bangladesh, took 13 days to reach the vicinity of Dhaka despite that fact that Dhaka is barely 100 to 200 km deep from Indian border. Then Indian army enjoyed 10:1 advantage on troops and weapons over Pakistan army deployed in Bangladesh, entire population of Bangladesh welcomed Indian troops, Bengali guerrilla forces fought and provided logistics to Indian army and Indian army engaged in bypassing strategy(avoiding Pakistani defence position to rush into Dhaka). Still it took 13 days! This shows, armored thrust within the interior of Bangladesh is not easy. This is the reason, Bangladesh is often called as the 'defender's paradise'.
This is a double edged sword for India. It is true, Indian landmass surround Bangladesh from 3 sides. But 2 out of this 3 sides covered by Indian land locked north East. An unnatural appendage of Indian mainland precariously connected with mainland India by narrow Siliguri corridor(Chicken neck corridor).
North-east is a part of India which has no sea access and it's 98 percent border is shared with Bangladesh, China and Myanmar and only 2 percent border with Mainland India. India itself has constant headache of defending that part of their country against Chinese military onslaught. Let alone using that part as a launching pad against Bangladesh. A militarily strong Bangladesh will only add headache to Indian defence planners. If somehow, Siliguri corridor can be blocked, then the entire North East will be cut-off from mainland India! India will suffer significant obstacle maintaining normal connectivity between it's mainland theatre and north East theatre of war. So in any hypothetical war with Bangladesh(if Bangladesh can achieve minimum deterrence), Indian forces will be forced to function as a divided front, while Bangladesh, by virtue of being in the middle will operate as a single front with much easier logistics and supply line.
And for the navy part, yes our navy is much weaker than Indian navy. We need some capable submarine fleet to reduce this huge gap and to act as a deterrence. We have no delusion of competing with India in Naval race. We only want enough capability so that India can not attack our coast without heavy losses or block our maritime trade unchallenged. That's it. That's why we need a strong Submarine fleet along with decent number of frigate and corvette.
Even if Bangladesh can not cut the corridor, still can significantly disrupt the communication and reinforcement through that corridor. Only a single 4 lane highway and a rail line is connecting main land India with North east through that corridor. Heavy artillary and MRLS bombing can do significant damage to that communication line provided that Bangladesh achieve some sort of military parity in that particular region. In that case Indian mainland and North East would be forced to function as a separate war theatre with minimal or no reinforcement in north east. While Bangladesh would function as a single war theatre with much shorter logistics and supply line. Much like Israel get the logistics advantage in it's war with surrounding Arab countries.
Most people in the subcontinent have their minds tainted by stupid arguments serially repeated by elders.
No. One thing I can assure you. China hate exporting Communist ideology. It's not in our interest. Most importantly, China is not a communist country at all.
youre a time waste. Good day. End of discussion
